the article talks about that.

This. Does anyone think this is going to help them in any way?

I do. It may not help most, it may even help only a small portion, but out of that small portion will come some students that are better educated and better able to help shape the next generation. And that would be a success. Education is always a bargain relative to the costs of not doing so. So what if a bunch of those readers end up on ebay?

BitCoin, should it survive will ultimately be deflationary currency, meaning it gains value the longer you hold it.

Is that a good trait for a currency? One that discourages economic activity?

After the crash? You make sure you have lots of guns and your food is locked down.

If it comes down to that I need only one gun and one bullet to solve all my problems. I'm checking out.

Can NASDAQ halt trading any time my stocks start doing poorly?

They do it simply to maintain an orderly market. It's not magic. When trading resumes it doesn't fix your poorly performing stock.

Not if you subscribe to the entirety of his post, which included prices falling due to higher buying costs, resulting in paying the same total amount, but with more of it going to interest. That makes it a better way to make use of an extra $20. That's his idea. I'm not endorsing it, but that's what he's saying, so no broken window fallacy.

Oops, looks like I just invoked both Godwin's Law and its new corollary

No you didn't.
Even newer corollary: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a misapplication of Godwin's Law approaches 1.

another Americansism which is incorrect.

You should give up on this notion of the "One True English." It varies around the world. The most common spoken version of English by far is bad English, used by people speaking it as a second or third language.

I'm not a "troll", I'm an Agitation Engineer.

So you fix washing machines?

And this is supposed to be an argument against jQuery?

On the internet, people reach a opinion first and then come up with reasons why, so often the reasons only make sense in that context. And oh yeah, besides the internet that happens everywhere else too.

Damn. I guessed Chiffon.

Why is this on slashdot?

For one, because there may well be some slashdotters who worked with him and can expand on what affect this might have on one or another Google project. Something you wouldn't find on a mainstream site.

Eric already knows about your body and he knows what your particular fetish is, too.

And he says "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it"

It's not about lying or decoying. It's about making the best decisions. You want AI that's capable of making good decisions even when the information is incomplete.

Poker games take time (hours), people grow tired, computers don't.

This is a good point. Computers have no emotion, either. Even the best human players are affected to some small degree by their emotions, especially when they are tired.

People struggle at memorizing chances, taking shortcuts, computers have exact picture talking into account every single bit.

Not much of an issue in Hold 'em. Good players can handle those odds with little effort.

All one needs is behavior that is random enough, for human players not to guess if computer is bluffing.

You of course don't want the human to be able to guess when the computer is bluffing, but it's certainly not "all one needs." Not by a long shot.

Then, of course, there is luck factor, so results will fluctuate quite a bit.

Yes. They'll be playing 1500 hands per day, but in no limit hold 'em the outcome often comes down to a handful of key hands.